Withdrawal Effects
June 15th, 2009 | Published in How I Kicked The Habit
One of the biggest myths about stopping smoking are the apparent huge withdrawal effects that you will suffer from if you stop smoking.
I’m going to cover this in even greater detail shortly but let’s think about what withdrawal is for a moment.
Can you explain how some people stop smoking and still crave cigarettes but they never felt ill after quitting? Can you explain how I quit smoking and never felt any withdrawal effects at all?
How about people who claim to quit and then get a whole host of symptoms - the shakes, the sweats, cramps, diarrhea, headaches and more.
Can you relate to any of this? Maybe you have tried quitting before and felt really bad. Maybe you know a family member who quit and felt terrible. Perhaps you even threw up violently.
And then you started smoking again and all the feelings went away. As soon as you had your cigarettes, your body was restored to normality. It made you realise how much your body had grown to depend on cigarettes and how much your body needs cigarettes just to survive.
If this is true, then how can you explain my own quitting and other people who didn’t suffer at all? Don’t say that we have different bodies with a different reaction to taking away nicotine. This is your addiction making up excuses to stop smoking. This is your addiction bending your logic.
For now, understand that there is a huge apparent “logical paradox” between most smokers who give up using willpower and the few who give up using this method. If there is a way to avoid the withdrawal symptoms, then what does that tell you about so-called nicotine addiction and doesn’t it sound like a better way?
